[webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_GESTURE_MANAGER

[Antonio Gomes]

Nice discussion!

I see the value of a cross-platform gesture implementation, but for the
touch interaction models I've seen out there, they are too different from
each other in many aspects, so maybe giving each platform its own spot to
implement it also makes sense.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> I'm mostly ignorant of how touch works, but would it make sense for
> the gesture recognition engine to be part of WebCore or is this
> functionality that's usually provided by the platform?
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert Kroeger <rjkroege at chromium.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi webkit-dev!
> >
> > As suggested by Eric Seidel's email from earlier today, I thought it
> > would be proper to let you know that I am in the process of adding a
> > touch gesture recognition feature to the Chromium port of WebKit. The
> > first part of this feature is
> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49345. This patch adds a hook
> > to WebCore to pass touch events to an optional platform-specific
> > gesture recognition engine. The code is turned off by default except
> > in the Chromium port where it is enabled with ENABLE_GESTURE_MANAGER.
> >
> > Patch https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54417 and its successors
> > will add a progressively more useful gesture recognizer implementation
> > to the Chromium platform.
> >
> > All code in this feature will be exercised by the Chromium buildbots.
> >
> > Rob.
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